Study: Fox Reports, MSNBC Decides

Liberal cable channel relies overwhelmingly on opinion, downplays news, Pew finds
Chris Hayes / AP

MSNBC dedicates 85 percent of its airtime to commentary and opinion, with only 15 percent concerning factual reporting, making it far more reliant on opinion coverage than its cable news rivals, a new study by the Pew Research Center shows.

MSNBC Fails ‘Favs’

Publicity-loving speechwriter misidentified

Chris Jansing’s MSNBC graphics team this morning mistook President Barack Obama’s photogenic speechwriter Jon Favreau for his celebrity namesake, director Jon Favreau during a rundown of Town & Country Magazine’s “Top 40 Bachelors” list.

Comcast’s Pro-Gun Policy

NBC Sports Network to sponsor nation’s largest gun show
2013 gun show in Utah / AP

The NBC Sports Network, a subsidiary of the communications giant Comcast, is helping to sponsor the largest gun trade show in the country despite anti-gun rhetoric on the NBC family of television networks, including a controversial monologue by one of its sports announcers.

Begala Makes Bundle by Ditching Beliefs

Though ‘opposed’ to Super PACs, Dem operative banks hundreds of thousands
Paul Begala / WC

MSNBC commentator Paul Begala has been vocal in his criticism of the Supreme Court ruling that, among other things, allowed Super PACs to continue spending hundreds of millions of dollars on election advertising.